I am on the same page, I used page objects and was adding Ids to everything with retry couple times before failing (state of art interface automation?) but tests were flaky anyway so I gave up on that. Just too much hassle for little or no return if interface changes. Let alone testing multiple browsers...

I was facing exactly the same issues with my automated tests so I wrote a wrapper to help me completely avoid writing page objects.

https://github.com/saiscode/8tomation

With this, your basic cucumber .feature file (with minor restrictions) can be executed without needing page objects. Take a look if you have a second...